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This Week In Music Commentary

6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c883ee34970b-100wiThis week music commentators take to their soap boxes to share their thoughts on why surprise album releases are terrible, the importance of having physical music for sale at your show, and to explain how songwriters just got screwed over.

  • Why Surprise Album Releases Are The Worst [Cortney Harding]
  • I Wanted To Spend $40 At Your Show, But Instead I Spent $0
  • Songwriters Just Got Screwed: Here's How
  • Obama, Meet Kafka [Chris Castle]
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Tags: American Society of Composers, Associated Press, Authors and Publishers, Barack Obama, Broadcast Music, Callinectes sapidus, Chris Castle, Google, Ho Ching, Inc., Lee Hsien Loong, United States
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